Live blog: World Naked Bike Ride coming to Ipswich, Pokemon Go grandad has 22 smartphones on bike (video), Regent's Park cyclists block driver on wrong side of road, Cav to miss Milan-San Remo squad, Team Ineos to face anti-fracking protests + more

The World Naked Bike Ride is coming to Ipswich for the first time in July this year.

Cyclists will join the ride, which aims to highlight the vulnerability of the human body as well as protesting against car and fossil fuel dependency, on Saturday 6 July.

Co-ordinator Robert Brown told the Ipswich Star: “It isn’t a race, it’s a gentle, leisurely ride around town.

“Our motto is ‘bare as you dare’ but we find once people get on the bike and start cycling naked they love it.”

Other places in the East of England to host similar rides include Clacton, Chelmsford, Colchester and Cambridge, where more than 200 people take part each year.

“Most people are supportive – you get the odd nasty comment but that is usually from someone who is narrow-minded,” Mr Brown added.

“We are not breaking the law or doing anything illegal and we have worked with the police, who helped us decide on a route around Ipswich.”

He added that the ride would take place whatever the weather.

“Once we have organised an event, nothing stops us,” he explained. “At one of the Chelmsford rides, it started to hail heavily and it started to sting, and we ended up having to take cover in a bus shelter.”

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— David.AR.Tri (@DavidARTri1) March 20, 2019

Fancy a chance to get right into the heart of one of the most chaotic races of the year?

Team Sky are giving you the chance to win a ride in one of the team cars that drive to several cobbled sectors to support the riders with wheels and bottles.

Head over here to enter. Then go an practise your wheels changes and 50kph bottle hand-ups, just in case!

How did I miss this classic pic, ⁦@SadiqKhan⁩ ⁦@willnorman⁩? Thankfully ⁦@TfL⁩ has published it in its latest board papers pic.twitter.com/VEipDbWRLn

— Ross Lydall (@RossLydall) March 21, 2019

A bizarre image, apparently from a recent TfL board paper!

Highest levels of cycling in central London since records began We had an average of 188,000 daily journeys or 573,646km per day in Q3 2018 pic.twitter.com/Gz19gZRtbj

— Will Norman (@willnorman) March 20, 2019

Let's hope it continues on an upwards trajectory (and accident rates go downwards)

Speaking to the BBC, Steve Mason of Frack Free United says there will almost certainly be protests over Ineos' involvement in cycling at the Tour de Yorkshire in May and the Road World Championships weekend in September. Ineos actually has permissions to explore for shale gas in the county, but work has yet to begin because of issues with planning permission.

On Tuesday's live blog we reported that Friends of the Earth campaigner Tony Bosworth says the Ineos deal with what is now known as Team Sky is an attempt at 'greenwashing' by the corporation: “Taking over Team Sky is the latest blatant attempt at greenwashing by Ineos. It’s a harsh change of tone that may see Sky’s Ocean Rescue campaign to clear plastic pollution from our oceans ditched from the team jersey in favour of Ineos – one of the biggest plastic producers in Europe.

"This is also a company that wants to frack large swathes of northern England and the East Midlands. Ineos has also been lobbying hard for the government to relax safety rules so fracking companies can trigger larger earthquakes before having to down tools.”

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— You Had One Job (@_youhadonejob1) March 19, 2019

If you aren't familiar with the 'You Had One Job' Twitter account, we reckon this might be their best find yet.